MTS is considering the purchase of Beeline, Rosatom will deal with IIoT: the main thing on February 10

Russia

• Vladimir Putin will deliver a message to the Federal Assembly on February 21. According to reports, the president will focus on the speech “on the current situation”, including in the economic sphere.

• Pleasant activities give Russians a feeling of happiness; the most popular among them were sleeping, eating and live communication, a survey by research agency Aventica showed.

• The number of buyers of goods on the Internet among Russians has almost doubled in five years, according to a study by Yandex.Market. Online purchases at least twice a year are made by 60% of urban residents aged 16-55.

Finance

• The Bank of Russia decided to keep the key rate at 7.5% per annum.

• According to the results of 2022, the capital of Yandex-Bank exceeded 4 billion rubles, having increased three times over the past year. The bank’s main shareholder bought the bank’s additional issue several times at a premium, Kommersant was told.
• The Abkhaz authorities and the leadership of the Russian Association of Crypto Industry and Blockchain, according to Vedomosti, are negotiating the creation of an IT cluster in the republic for the development of digital solutions.

• In the European Union, more than 200 billion dollars were missing from the frozen reserves of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Of the $258 billion that the Bank of Russia kept in Europe, only $36.4 billion was discovered and arrested, so the EU cannot yet transfer these funds to the restoration of Ukraine.

Business

• Host Theatre, a Dubai-based theater project with Russian roots, has attracted investment of $160,000 from business angels. The company plans to launch in Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey.

• Wildberries, in the framework of the “fight against vaporizers”, decided to launch an artificial intelligence-based bot that will verify product cards and block prohibited products.

• The co-founder of the retailer Sela, Boris Ostrobrod, drowned in a car in a lake in Latvia. This was announced by his cousin and partner Arkady Pekarevsky. He was 65 years old.

• As part of the bankruptcy, the brand and website of the Respublika book chain will be put up for sale. The starting price is 53.5 million rubles. The auction will take place on March 23, all assets are put in one lot.
• In Russia, there are now 6.5 million self-employed workers, by the end of the year their number may grow to 10 million people, analysts of the Nimix service predict. The total income of employees of this format of work in 2022 amounted to 125.8 billion rubles.
• The release of electric cars in Russia will exceed the pace of installation of fast charging stations, Vedomosti writes. In 2023, Russia wants to launch 872 fast chargers and up to 18,000 electric cars.
• MTS is considering the purchase of Beeline, IZ reported. Preliminary discussions of a possible agreement between a potential buyer and sellers have already passed.

• Rosatom structures are buying MCST, the developer of Elbrus processors, the sources told Kommersant. The state corporation is alleged to have expressed a willingness to manage the company’s assets under sanctions in the fall, but did not want to buy them for money.

• Avito bought 100% of Roomberry, a service for finding new buildings in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The company has acted as a technology partner of Avito Nedvizhimost for several years. According to the Avito press service, the Roomberry team will continue to work and develop the platform.

Services

• Two-factor authentication will appear in State Services in March, and from June 1 it will be mandatory for all users. In addition, the Ministry of Digital Development is launching a program to search for vulnerabilities in the portal.

Technologies

• The leadership of large Russian companies, state corporations and departments are trying to discourage users from using Google Drive and Google Docs services, Vedomosti writes. To do this, organizations are actively purchasing special solutions that allow you to restrict access to selected resources and create secure analogues of cloud storage.
• It is planned to invest about 90 billion rubles in the industrial Internet of things until 2030. Rosatom will allocate 13.3 billion rubles for this, another 74.4 billion rubles will come from other extrabudgetary funds.
• The ANO “Institute for Internet Development” (IRI) will invest additional funds in the development of the game “Trouble”, dedicated to the events of the same era in Russia, which previously received a grant of 260 million rubles, Vedomosti reported. . .